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Yeah, the PS5 controller has gotten some really good notices, and I have yet to try one for myself - but I also kind of assume that’s coming from people who already liked the PS controllers, and so the new one is just an improvement on that basic design. As someone who’s not really wild about that design, just in

Exactly! (Though, to be fair, I don’t think ‘they’ actually do those - I believe those are cross-posted from somewhere else along Gizmodo, AVClub or Lifehacker, maybe, so Kotaku writers aren’t actually the ones putting those together.)

Happened to me with Vermintide 2, as well; I don’t think I bought it as soon as it was announced that it was leaving, but it was on sale for about 50% off within a month of departure, I believe. (And then it was ultimately added again, but I wasn’t unhappy I’d paid for it in the meantime - I definitely got my twenty

This sounds nifty! I wonder if there’s a plan to add any sort of single-player content; I tend to like deck-builders, but not so much competitive games. Because I’m a wimp.

Only vaguely on-topic, but would you guys consider doing full GamePass release coverage, the same way you do Xbox Gold or PS Plus? It feels a little inconsistent at the moment, by which I mean ‘big’ additions - or departures, like this one - get covered, but I’d love to have more consistent coverage, month to month,

I believe the rubber bands were to keep one of the shoulder buttons held down, rather than for the nonexistent analog stick (like I said, the analog sticks - just because of placement - were where the PS controllers started to lose me). Don’t ask my why I’d decided that holding one of the shoulder buttons down was the

I still have a definite fondness for the original PS controller, though a lot of that may be nostalgia (‘come on, I remember wrapping rubber bands around that thing so I could grind out fights in Final Fantasy games!’ type stuff). The shift toward analog sticks and ‘trigger-like’ shoulder buttons is when the various

Interestingly enough, those are both titles that I tried and bounced off of with GamePass, but in that kinda-guilty way, like ‘I mean, I probably could have fun with these if I put more than an hour or so into them, but there’s so much other stuff I could be playing that I think I’ll just move on’. That’s what I kind

Yeah, the whole ‘it’s a Vietnam allegory’ part definitely gets overlooked, but let’s face it: videogames in particular tend to take a ‘let’s completely strip the subtext out of something’ approach. (I want to say at one point there was actually a Fight Club video game that was... basically just that one ‘wouldn’t a

I find the GamePass approach to games really interesting - or rather, my reaction to the GamePass approach. I’m right there with you in that having access to so many definitely encourages dipping in and out, and I’m much less likely to ‘push through’ with a game that doesn’t particularly engage me right off the bat -

As much as I tend to hate tacked-on vehicle segments in games... yeah, I wouldn’t mind a little ‘bump and squish’ in an APC, either.

Cheers, thank you! That’s really nice of you to say, absolutely made my day.

Admittedly, I never played that one (though I’ve heard good things!); the whole ‘AvP’ thing just never really worked for me, as a concept.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m ‘getting that’ purely anecdotally, in that the PC gamers I know entirely replace their rigs on something close to a console lifespan. And if you’d like to show me a link for a gaming PC that can run titles at roughly the same spec as either a Series X or a Playstation 5 for under

I’m not so sure about some of that, honestly: what’s the average lifespan of a console generation, five years? I doubt too many people burn through multiples of the same console - and a gaming PC rig, even if you have been changing out its guts on the regular (an expense on its own), isn’t going to last much longer

Ha! And there are certainly reasons to prefer a Honda over a Lexus just like there are reasons to prefer a console over a PC rig that don’t have anything to do with price... but that extra cash you saved can’t hurt either, I’m sure!

Same; the Xbox One was my primary console last generation as well (because of both GamePass, and the fact that I prefer the controller), and at first, I was a little disappointed that diving into my Series X wasn’t more ‘exciting’: same UI, essentially the same controller, it’s basically just a better version of my

That fact that (assuming you could find one) a current generation console costs - what, a third of a gaming PC rig, or even a fourth? - is probably a factor as well. ‘Why drive a Honda Civic when you COULD drive a Lexus?’ ‘Because I can’t afford a Lexus/would rather spend my money on stuff OTHER than my car.’

Hmmm. Definitely a cool idea, I just don’t know if an open world game could sustain the kind of tension I’d want from an Aliens game. I feel like it would be a real struggle to ‘maintain’ the kind of world state an open world game demands, given that, to me, an Alien story is always tending toward either a) a location

Yep; as someone who’s owned both major consoles for the last several generations (I go back and forth on whether I pick up whatever Nintendo’s doing, but that has more to do with ‘do I think there will be enough games that I’ll like’ than with any console features), the controller’s usually what tips the Xbox into